Processor:x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2666 MhzīIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional I really appreciate the time and efforts of all of you here. Is it possible to limit the CPU usage by Mcafee so that my other programs aren't affected noticeably? Its always taken this long, but recently I lost some valuable information due to my computer becoming unresponsive so that's when this became personal. And then the update process seems takes long as well (sometimes as long as 30 minutes).

prevents my other programs from running smoothly)Įven at startup the Mcafee icons take a long time (atleast a couple of minutes) to load in the bottom right corner of my screen by the time. Mcshield.exe (up to 99% CPU and 130,000 K memory usage. avgcsrvx.exe (AVG Scanning Core Module Server Part) 336K and 7,000K during scanning avgscanx.exe (AVG Command-line Scanning Utility) 9,716 K during scanning only Sitting at idle these totaled.

The processes that seem to be taking over my CPU are: When Mcafee begins looking for updates and installing them (automatically around start up) that is when anything I'm doing on the computer either slows down to a crawl and can become unresponsive. I am running Mcafee Security Center on my computer (rest of the specs about my computer are below). My computer has consistently high CPU usage often at 100%.

Avg scanning core module